October 27th, Halloween SZALON!

1.     Flutist Lindsey Goodman performs works by Anthony Paul De Ritis and Melissa D'Albora off her new album in the company of music,  from her home in Pickerington, Ohio

2.     Noëlle Streuber-Eden and Maria Dell’Orefice perform "ghostly" selections for violin and piano, including William Bolcom's “Graceful Ghost Rag”, from the Szalon in Philadelphia

3.     Keegan Tawa performs traditional Armenian folk pieces on the Duduk that address death, from funerary requiems to genocidal threnody, from the Szalon

4.     Matvey Lapin and Katya Kramer (violin and piano duo) perform pieces by Alfred Schnittke, “Stille Nacht” and “Polka”, to share with the Szalon audience the haunting, surrealist experience of the Halloween season

5.     Aavi Sircar performs “Missing Moon” and “Floating Clouds” from Chinese-American composer Tan Dun’s evocative piano suite Eight Memories in Watercolor, from the Szalon

6.     Live from the Szalon, LIGAMENT (Anika Kildegaard and Will Yager) perform Jean-Patrick Besingrand's creepy, ghost-filled "Yūrei" for soprano and double bass

7.     Nate Ko, violinist and vocalist, performs “Phantom Shells (Nico Avella) and “Superstition” (Stevie Wonder), from the Szalon

8.     eassae presents two original electronic compositions from his new release “esse essay”, from the Szalon

9.     Adrian Wood performs a selection from the score for their new movement-based performance, "The Exact Right Amount of Force," from the Szalon

10.  Like a child in a wildly mismatched Halloween costume, singer/songwriter Bert Lee performs original music at the Szalon; it will be your choice of trick or treat 

11.  Robert and Katherine Oakes perform haunting songs of love and mystery off their new EP, Hide and Seek, from their home studio in Pomfret, Connecticut

Lindsey Goodman

Flutist Lindsey Goodman is a soloist, recording artist, chamber collaborator, orchestral musician, educator, and clinician whose “palette of tone colors includes cool silver, warm chocolate, the bright colors of a sunrise, and the deep blue of midnight.” (The Flutist Quarterly) Performances “played with conviction” (New York Times) have been heard across three continents, including at Carnegie Hall, Eastman School of Music, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Google headquarters, University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music, several National and Canadian Flute Association conventions, across China, and on the Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone podcast. Lindsey is principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, instructor of flute at Otterbein University and Glenville State University, artist faculty member of the Mostly Modern Festival, and solo flutist of the new music ensemble What Is Noise. She is a founding member of flute quartet PANdemonium4 and of Chrysalis, a singing flutist and singing pianist duo. Lindsey received degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, and Duquesne University. 

Links:

www.LindseyGoodman.com
www.facebook.com/LindseyGoodmanFlutist
www.youtube.com/lindseygoodmanfans 
www.instagram.com/lindseyjgoodman
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Noëlle Streuber-Eden and Maria Dell’Orefice

A transplant from the Greater Chicago Area, Noëlle Streuber-Eden began her violin studies at just three and three-quarters and debuted with the Indiana Lakeside Artists in 2021. Since then, she has captivated audiences with her warm, full tone in performances that are both elegant and virtuosic. Currently studying with Guillaume Combet in Philadelphia, and also a passionate chamber musician with the Philadelphia Settlement School's Ann Newman Quartet and Temple University's Center for Gifted Young Musicians, Noëlle has won numerous national and international violin competitions that have led her to Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, Iceland's Harpa, and other exciting venues. She has performed for such legends as Almita Vamos, Jennifer Koh, Ida Kavafian, Desirée Ruhstrat, Peter Zazofsky, and Robert Chen, in various master classes and summer institutes and is excited to return to the Szalon with Maria Dell'Orefice to present whimsical "ghostly" salon tunes, including William Bolcom's Graceful Ghost Rag.

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Maria Dell’Orefice, a classical pianist and avid violinist, has shared the stage with performers such as Alexander Markov, Francesca DePasquale and Chris Botti. While Maria frequently presents solo and collaborative performances in the Philadelphia area, she has also performed solo piano in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as a result of winning several competitions. Maria is the pianist for the Haverford College choirs, Staff Pianist Artist in Residence at Temple University, and Staff Pianist for the Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy (PYPA) Piano Festival. Maria has studied under Charles Abramovic, Lambert Orkis, Jane Abbott-Kirk, and Sheila Paige and is an advocate of the Taubman technique. She earned her B.M. in Piano Performance from Baylor University and earned a double M.M. in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano from Temple University.

Links:

mariadellorefice.com
https://www.youtube.com/@mariadelloreficemusic/featured
https://www.facebook.com/mariadelloreficemusic
https://www.instagram.com/mariadelloreficemusic/

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Keegan Tawa

Halloween is derived from Samhain, a Gaelic festival marking the liminal transition of Autumn into Winter, of life into death. Keegan Tawa will perform a series of traditional Armenian folk pieces on the Duduk that address death, from funerary requiems to genocidal threnody.  Keegan Tawa is a Saxophonist, Duduk player, composer, and engineer from Philadelphia, US. His unique fusion of engineering and composition gives his music a characteristically futuristic sound. Tawa is a super collaborator, seeking constantly to intersect the skills, backgrounds, and cultures of artists from around the world. His background in Jazz, vocation as an engineer, and passion for storytelling give him a rare and unmistakable approach to composition and sound. Tawa's newest record, "Tessellation," is a global collaboration of 25 artists from Turkey, Iran, Tunisia, Israel, India, China, and the United States. Tessellation is a Jazz album deeply inspired by Pan-Arabic and Persian approaches to melody, featuring a wide array of traditional instrumentation deployed alongside modern, cutting-edge electronics.

Links:

Streaming Tessellation!

Purchasing music and vinyl records on Bandcamp:  https://ktawa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/keegantawa
https://www.youtube.com/@KeeganTawa0

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Matvey Lapin and Katya Kramer

Matvey Lapin enjoys a multifaceted career as a recording artist, chamber musician, orchestra leader and teacher. His professional engagements brought him around the world, including most of Europe, Japan and Korea.  A Russian native, he accomplished his conservatory training in St. Petersburg, and has completed his DM coursework in violin performance at IU Jacobs School of Music, minoring in historical violins and music history. A former member of Grammy-nominated St. Petersburg String Quartet, Matvey collaborated with such musicians as Alex Kerr and Barthold Kuijken, among others. Duo Amabile, a chamber music duet formed with his wife, pianist Katya Kramer-Lapin, performs intensively across the US and Europe. As a historically informed performer, Matvey collaborates with Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Three Notched Road and North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, among others. A demanded teacher, Matvey currently maintains a private studio in Cary NC. Matvey records for Naxos, Oclassica and Melodiya.

Links:

Venmo: @Matvey-Lapin
YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@MatveyLapin-y6u

Katya Kramer is an American concert pianist, educator, and recording artist for the Oclassica label. Her recent and upcoming solo appearances include the Pianofête Piano Festival in Vashon WA, the UNESCO headquarters under the auspices of John Paul II in Paris, France, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, and solo and chamber music performances at Steinway Piano Galleries and major halls in Taiwan, Europe and the United States. Katya’s chamber music collaborations have included concerto performances with world-renowned recitalists and chamber musicians such as violinist Kuan Chong Lu and principal horn Phil Myers of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and Jeffrey Nelson, hornist of the Brass Quintet. Katya has accompanied master classes by Yo Yo Ma, Renee Fleming and other guest artists at DePauw University School of Music. Katya studied in Cologne, Germany, at the Hochschuele Fuer Musik and graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory, OH, in 2003. Katya is a Master’s graduate in piano performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington, where she received from Professor Shigeo Neriki in the Artist Diploma Program, the terminate degree in music. She is the founder, professor, and artistic director of Piano Studio, where she offers lessons and educational programs.

Links:

https://oclassica.com/artists/katya-kramer-lapin/
https://oclassica.com/online-course/playing-piano-with-katya-kramer-lapin/
https://oclassica.com/releases/the-best-of-katya-kramer-lapin/

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Aavi Sircar

Aavi Sircar is 12 years old and a seventh grader at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He began piano lessons at age 8 and has since performed at major concert venues nationally and internationally. He has been featured as a young virtuoso on Steinert & Sons Steinway Stories and as a guest artist at The Music Salon hosted by Philadelphia-based symphony conductor Karl Middleman. Aavi has played at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Academy of Music Ballroom in Philadelphia, Field Concert Hall at Curtis Institute of Music, Sala dei Notari in Perugia, Italy, GC de Lijsterbes in Brussels and the Van Cliburn Concert Hall in Fort Worth. He made his orchestral debut in Perugia, Italy in the summer of 2023 with the Europa Musica Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Marius Stravinsky and will be performing as a soloist with the Ambler Symphony Orchestra and the Old York Road Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Jack Moore in Spring 2025. Aavi takes piano lessons from Mr. James Anemone at Anemone Piano Studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Apart from piano, he enjoys science, math, chess and coding computer games in C#, Lua, Java Script and Unity. He has been actively training in martial arts two to three times a week since he was 5 years old. He is currently a 2nd Dan (2nd Degree Black Belt) in Taekwondo and working towards his 3 d Dan.

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@aavisircar

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LIGAMENT

Described as “perverse and nihilistic” by someone on Twitter, Anika Kildegaard (voice) and Will Yager(double bass) are LIGAMENT, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning new music and creating work for their unique instrumentation. LIGAMENT’s performance highlights include the concert series Feed Me Weird Things, University of Iowa Center for New Music, Kansas City Contemporary Music Festival, Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project’s Re:Sound, residencies at the University of Idaho and University of Iowa, and collaborations with the composition department at the Peabody Conservatory. They have premiered many new works, and have an upcoming album of pieces written for the duo. LIGAMENT is currently based in Iowa/Philadelphia.

Links:

www.ligamentduo.com 
@ligamentduo on Instagram
@LIGAMENTduo on YouTube

Nathan Ko

Although it is the pursuit of a veterinary education that has brought him to Philadelphia, music has been an integral part of Nate's life from an early age. Originally a classically trained violinist, Nate honed cultivated violin and vocal discipline through membership in orchestras, theatrical productions, and even a cappella groups. It wasn't long before he started to combine the two; nowadays, his arrangements combine folk and jazz influences with the drama of classical technique.
 
Links:

Instagram: @n888k0
Venmo: @n888k0

eassae

eassae (essay)[ˈɛˌseɪ] is a New York based electronic composer/producer. Switching from painting to music in his mid 20s, his music education is primarily self-directed. Since 2005 he has written, recorded, and produced 10 LPs, 2 Double LPs, and 1 EP under various monikers. He was the grand prize winner of the John Lennon Song Writing Contest in the electronic category in 2022, and a finalist in 2023 and 2024. eassae’s work is influenced by all musical genera, literature, travel, and film sound design. He is the founder of the independent electronic music label CC Undefined Records.

Links:

https://eassae.com
https://ccundefined.com

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Adrian Wood

Adrian Wood is a sound artist, multimedia producer and social practitioner working at the intersection of landscape and identity. Adrian’s work centers the ear, drawing listeners in using sounds of water and wind, howls, whispers, seismic vibrations, and archival audio to explore invisible forces and histories that shape our social, ecological world. In their role as Multimedia Producer with the University of Virginia's Repair Lab, Adrian wrote and produced the podcast The Repair Lab, which earned two 2023 Signal Awards in the categories of Sustainability & Environment and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; and, was shortlisted for the Press Gazette's Future of Media Awards in 2024. Adrian has shown work in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Institut für Alles Mögliche (Berlin), Hundred Years Gallery (London) and the College of William & Mary. Adrian’s work has been featured in online broadcasts and publications including Hyperallergic, Radio Borealis and Sound Fields. They have shared stages with Tara Rodgers, Christopher DeLaurenti, Every House Has A Door, Cindy Lee, Zomes and Linda Jankowska. Adrian has been recognized and awarded through institutions including UnionDocs, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The University of Michigan, Experimental Sound Studio, Mana Contemporary, Vermont Studio Center and the University of Chicago. Adrian earned a Masters in Fine Art in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019.

Links:

Website: adrianwoodstudio.com
Venmo: @adrianwoodstudio
Soundcloud: Sugarlift
Instagram: @adriankvwood

Video:

Trailer for my recent film Voroboros with original score: https://vimeo.com/815745796

Bert Lee

Bert Lee has established himself as an enduring voice in the New York songwriting community. His intricate guitar style and honest and expressive voice have made him a favorite among aficionados of the Greenwich Village folk scene. “In Bert's songs there’s a whisper of irony, to remind us the most meaningful truths are found in the most unexpected places.” (Fabio Fantuzzi Research fellow, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)

Venmo: @william-lee-158
bertlee.bandcamp.com
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ElbertLeeIII

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Robert and Katherine Oakes

With close harmonies, soulful songs, Robert's engaging storytelling, and Katherine’s soaring voice, husband-and-wife folk duo Oakes and Smith creates an ethereal sound not often heard in today’s popular music. At the heart of this project are the bond of love between them and their shared passion to make meaningful music and art. Oakes and Smith hope to inspire their listeners and remind them that sincerity and soul are still alive in our world.

Links:

Website: oakesandsmith.net
Facebook: facebook.com/oakesandsmith
Instagram: instagram.com/oakesandsmith
YouTube: youtube.com/@oakesandsmithmusic

Our music is available for download on Bandcamp at
oakesandsmith.bandcamp.com

To purchase the new EP, visit
oakesandsmith.bandcamp.com/album/hide-and-seek

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